We performed a comparison between ShieldX and Sophos XG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"It has helped us tighten our security posture. Now, staff can only access things that they should be accessing."
"ShieldX has been designed from the very beginning to work well in cloud environments. It understands autoscaling, automation, and auto-configuration. These are the things which are important in today's operating environment."
"We were able to see what devices are talking to each other, giving us more visibility."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic scaling. With its microservices, it scales both up and down, depending on traffic and throughput."
"...It takes the exact same policies that you would apply to your on-premise environment and enables you to simply apply them to the cloud. It becomes one policy for both on-prem and for the cloud."
"The Adaptive Intention Engine is fantastic. It allows us to develop security policies using the language of our internal customers. It's machine-learning applied to security workflows. That allows us to much more easily construct the policies that will protect those workflows."
"The UI was also one of the huge selling points. My web development manager was blown away with the detail and the granularity that you can get out of the UI. It is a very strong and informative UI, with the amount of data it provides."
"The web application firewall reverse proxy is very good."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the reporting function."
"We have found that the simplicity of the XG 210 is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the VPN aspect."
"It's a product that is in continuous improvement and is following what the customer is asking for. They are taking inputs and designing new releases specifically according to the client and their needs."
"I like the dashboard, the interface, the management console, and the remote login."
"If you want to install antivirus and firewalling on endpoints, then Sophos is the best option."
"It is a very stable solution."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"The scalability could be better."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"They need to be consistent in performance and capabilities over time, given the fact that this is new and I want to see where this goes in the next year or so. As the vendor continues to evolve and add future functionality, we want to make sure that we are still keeping up with the integrations, etc. Time will be the key factor here. The proper support for some of the latest technologies, Docker containers, etc. They need to keep up with threat landscape, so we will see how the security get layered. This is what we are going to be keeping an eye on."
"With any kind of tool like ShieldX, where you're in the cloud instead of a traditional firewall, you're using CPU resources in those environments to provide the protection. So there's a cost associated with CPU resources. I'm pressing upon them to make the product much more efficient and use less CPUs to do the same thing."
"I would like better reports and in-depth reporting."
"There should be a bit more customer care, with regular review meetings on it or regular reports. It would be nice to have a quarterly or biannual review of what ShieldX has blocked."
"We are having some issues with their LDAP and integrating it with the Active Directory. We can't seem to set it up."
"Technical support could be improved. They aren't as responsive as they could be."
"Sophos XG could improve the policies, they are a bit confusing when creating them. There are many options that make it confusing and it could be simplified."
"I would prefer if Sophos XG were cheaper. A lower price would benefit me as a system provider for the end customer. The cost of the license and renewal for all the software and devices is somewhat high."
"The cloud support needs to be improved."
"The logging side of it could definitely be better. Some of the logging lacks, and the information that they provide you, especially in the spam filtering section, could be better."
"LAN inbound and outbound traffic requires more control."
"The MTR feature needs enhancing."
"Its price should be improved. It should be cheaper."
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ShieldX is ranked 47th in Firewalls while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. ShieldX is rated 9.2, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ShieldX writes "Proactively monitors, blocks, and reports what it has blocked; and self-updates meaning there is zero maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". ShieldX is most compared with , whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX.
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